Ohio hunters save sickly bald eagle

Friday

Mar 27, 2009 at 12:01 AMMar 27, 2009 at 5:21 PM

You might not expect our nation’s symbol to drop from the sky like a brick and nearly clunk you in the head. That’s exactly what happened to Marshall Weinberg when he and his in-laws went deer hunting with muzzle rifles this past winter.

Benjamin Duer

Hunting comes with the expectation that you might encounter a woodland critter or two.

But you might not expect our nation’s symbol to drop from the sky like a brick and nearly clunk you in the head.

That’s exactly what happened to Marshall Weinberg when he and his in-laws went deer hunting with muzzle rifles this past winter.

“I heard a crash. I thought a tree was coming down,” Weinberg recalled.

It wasn’t a tree. It was a bald eagle with a wing span approaching 7 feet.

And it landed less than 20 yards from Weinberg, who hid behind a bush and watched the eagle try to get on its feet.